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The Seminar aims to investigate the issue of the re-appropriation and the recovery of river landscapes, often compromised and degraded as a result of human or natural changes, starting from the case of the Campania region, which sets out as a laboratory where it is possible to test the combination of appropriate methods and technics to actively plan river landscapes. In this framework, adopting a landscape restoration approach might suggest useful hints to return landscapes to their natural conditions, counting on resilience, if specific conditions of sites make it possible. At the same time, the conference highlights the importance of enhancing local communities’ resources in order to reinterpret and redefine landscapes.
Scientific coordinators: Francesco Domenico MOCCIA and Elvira PETRONCELLI

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Tracks

a. Conservation and transformations of dynamic landscapes
Coordinators: Bianca Gioia MARINO and Rossana VALENTI
The river is probably the natural element mostly submitted to the human transforming action that can alter its features, the surrounding historical and natural landscapes and the urban image. The indications of government actions must take account of an integrated perspective of several disciplinary issues, that connote its landscape. The session aims to connect issues relating to the ‘identities’ of the river landscapes and to the interpretative mechanisms through which we recognize decay, needs and potentialities, considering aesthetic and historical values of river places, by identifying the issues about the historical and archaeological heritage, the geo-natural features, the historic landscapes, urban and not.

b. Resilient spaces of river fruition
Coordinators: Vito CAPPIELLO and Marialuce STANGANELLI
In some researches or works, river landscapes are considered as the result of a “design by nature” approach or co-working with nature for the restoration of damaged landscapes. We focus on the natural functioning of river corridors, their adaptation to natural processes and the attention to their vitality.  In contrast with the artificiality connected with hard engineering methods treating river landscapes’ problems, this track aims to collect contributions on developments based on ecological infrastructure and on a fertile, mixed and functional dimension of landscape, which define healthy and vital places, in a perspective of “evolutionary resilience”.

c. Geographical approaches and visual and interactive strategies for river landscapes
Coordinators: Pierpaolo D’AGOSTINO and Barbara DELLE DONNE
Most of rivers decay situations could be today analyzed through the development of ICT logic, the positive spread of instruments able to provide exchange about information and knowledge. They allow interaction among users that have the common goal to protect and maintain the best environmental conditions and landscape. On the other hand, there is also the increasing achievement of strategies aimed at the digital representation of the whole environment. Therefore, it should be noted that the investigation about the heritage landscapes, especially if related to water, cannot ignore the ability of synthesis offered by the sciences related to the representation, also updating its intellectual framework and tools.

d. Water and land in the landscape project
Coordinators: Dora FRANCESE and Francesco VIOLA
Researches in different scales, faced from a technological or architectural point of view, about the relationship between rivers and the cultural involvement of populations, allow the understanding of the processes of landscape transformations and the economical and human relationships due to the different uses of water. Topics for the session could be river basins, their transformations and their relationship with landscape resources and the production chains, the connections between water spaces and the infrastructures, in order to transfer pure and clean water to towns and villages, and, in a larger scale, the sustainable transformations of the water landscape concerning relations between the configuration of the territory, the production systems and populations behaviour.